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ASYNC
2006
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
A Level-Crossing Flash Asynchronous Analog-to-Digital Converter
Distributed sensor networks, human body implants, and hand-held electronics have tight energy budgets that necessitate low power circuits. Most of these devices include an analog-...
Filipp Akopyan, Rajit Manohar, Alyssa B. Apsel
AHS
2006
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Micro-Antenna on Silicon Substrate
Adaptive antenna technology represents the most advanced smart antenna approach to date. Using a variety of new signal-processing algorithms, the adaptive system takes advantage o...
Nakul Haridas, Ahmet T. Erdogan, Tughrul Arslan, M...
IPSN
2007
Springer
14 years 6 months ago
Micro power meter for energy monitoring of wireless sensor networks at scale
We present SPOT, a scalable power observation tool that enables in situ measurement of nodal power and energy over a dynamic range exceeding four decades or a temporal resolution ...
Xiaofan Jiang, Prabal Dutta, David E. Culler, Ion ...
SECON
2007
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Experimental Investigation of IEEE 802.15.4 Transmission Power Control and Interference Minimization
Abstract—Although the characteristics of RF transmissions are physically well understood at the lowest levels of communication design, accurately incorporating power and interfer...
Steven Myers, Seapahn Megerian, Suman Banerjee, Mi...
SECON
2008
IEEE
14 years 6 months ago
Adaptive Radio Modes in Sensor Networks: How Deep to Sleep?
—Energy-efficient performance is a central challenge in sensor network deployments, and the radio is a major contributor to overall energy node consumption. Current energyeffic...
Raja Jurdak, Antonio G. Ruzzelli, Gregory M. P. O'...
ISQED
2008
IEEE
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14 years 6 months ago
Error Protected Data Bus Inversion Using Standard DRAM Components
Off-chip communication consumes a significant part of main memory system power. Existing solutions imply the use of specialized memories or assume error free environments. This i...
Maurizio Skerlj, Paolo Ienne
ICCD
2006
IEEE
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14 years 8 months ago
A Low Power Highly Associative Cache for Embedded Systems
—Reducing energy consumption is an important issue for battery powered embedded computing systems. Content Addressable Memory (CAM)-based Highly-Associative Caches (HAC) are wide...
Chuanjun Zhang
DAC
2003
ACM
15 years 25 days ago
A 16-bit mixed-signal microsystem with integrated CMOS-MEMS clock reference
In this work, we report on an unprecedented design where digital, analog, and MEMS technologies are combined to realize a generalpurpose single-chip CMOS microsystem. The converge...
Robert M. Senger, Eric D. Marsman, Michael S. McCo...
DAC
1998
ACM
15 years 25 days ago
Reducing Power in High-Performance Microprocessors
Power consumption has become one of the biggest challenges in high-performance microprocessor design. The rapid increase in the complexity and speed of each new CPU generation is ...
Vivek Tiwari, Deo Singh, Suresh Rajgopal, Gaurav M...